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No headersI developed and taught a course in mathematical models in biology for biology majors. I designed the course to fulfill content goals and collaborative skill-building goals. My projects focus on:
1. Describing the course – its structure, process, and some outcomes – for colleagues
2. Exploring long-term learning retention (four semesters).
3. Beginning to explore the instructional practices and tools that best promote collaborative skill development.
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Your project sounds very interesting to me. I like the potential to describe the process that you went through to develop collaborative skills in your students. I also like the potential to show that collaborative learning is per se more effective than independent or cooperative learning. So I could be interested in your paper as a model of how to document an iterative process of teaching and learning development - this would show me how you thought during the process and why you made the decisions that you did. I also do group work and am grappling with how to help students work effectively at cooperative and collaborative levels. Your paper would provide a model for someone like me. I also would like to see evidence that collaborative learning is more effective than independent learning.
cheers Chris